CIRCA 1758-59, BLUE INTERLACED L'S MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER F, PAINTER'S BLUE M MARK FOR JEAN-LOUIS MORIN

Details

A Sevres two-handled blue-ground seau (cuvette a fleurs unie)
Circa 1758-59, blue interlaced L's mark enclosing date letter F, painter's blue M mark for Jean-Louis Morin
The front of bombé form, the sides with up-turned foliage handles enriched with gilding, the front painted with two winged putti among clouds collecting hearts in a blue robe, the reverse with a trophy among clouds including a plumed turban, each within gilt escutcheon-shaped cartouches edged with scrolls, flowers, foliage and panels of dot ornament, against a rich blue ground below a gilt dentil rim (very slight chipping to footrim, handles with slight wear to gilding at extremities)
11 3/8 in. (29 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Jean-Louis Morin, painter, active at Sèvres 1754-87.

For the definitive discussion of this model see John Whitehead, 'Les cuvettes à fleurs unies en porcelaine de Vincennes-Sèvres' Sèvres (1998, no. 7), pp. 41-49. The present lot is an addition to the listed examples. The trophy on the reverse with its quiver of arrows and crescent alludes to the Goddess Diana.

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